Metropolitan Club Building

STATUS Designated Individual Landmark

1-11 East 60th Street

ARCHITECT: McKim, Mead & White; Stanford White

DATE: 1891-94

STYLE: Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance Manhattan Upper East Side

Described by the 19th-century architectural historian Montgomery Schuyler as “the largest, most imposing, and most luxurious of the club-houses of New York” the Metropolitan Club Building was designed by Stanford White, a partner in the firm of McKim, Mead & White, and was built between 1892 and 1894. Executed on a grand scale in a restrained Italian Renaissance manner, the building incorporated the prestige and dignity of the Club’s founding members.

STATUS Designated Individual Landmark

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